The 23 eternal struggles of being 'The Funny One' in the group

It's bloody hard work being hilarious, y'know.

1. Being labelled 'the funny one' is entirely your own fault, but it means you have to live up to it ALL THE TIME.

What a treat it must be to sit back and be amused by someone else. You can only imagine.

2. When there's a typo in a brilliant tweet you posted but it's already had five favourites.

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Risk the cringe of republishing your corrected joke moments later, or live with your typo failure for all of eternity? ARGGHH.

3. Members of the opposite sex often think you're flirting.

Nope. Just craving the lolz from penis-owners and vagina-havers alike. Any lol's a goal.

4. But the people you want to fancy you think you're "really FUN" but they "just don't see you that way."

ARGH. It's the knife through every funny person's heart.

5. People that don't really 'get' your sense of humour are the bane of your life.

WHAT'S NOT TO GET? Freaks.

6. You hate it when other supposedly 'hilarious' people enter your social situation.

These wannabes must be destroyed.

7. But if people aren't funny at all, you can't really see the point in their existence.

A life without bants is a life not worth living.

8. You often try to bring a bit of light relief to the wrong kinds of situations. Like funerals.

You've learned the hard way that comedy is ALL ABOUT CONTEXT.

9. You tell hilariously embarrassing tales of your life at the expense of your own dignity.

You're an over sharer extraordinaire, but some things should stay private. That time you rushed home with chicken-induced diarrhoea but were locked out *probably* shouldn't be a topic of conversation. Or broadcast to the world in an article on the internet. Oops.

10. Almost-as-funny people are the worst.

Jokes between you go on and on and on as everyone vies for the punchline. It's fun but bloody exhausting.

11. You can build a rapport with people almost instantly.

Your sparkling wit is amazing in job interviews, not so amazing when you accidentally attract the weirdos at the bus stop and get stuck in conversation. Gah.

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12. You're often SO funny in meetings and interviews you feel bad for upstaging everyone else.

But your insistence on ending every exchange on a joke can sometimes hinder your ability to seem like a mature person. Also a valued personality trait, appaz.

13. When you accidentally fluff the punchline to a really good joke you'd secretly been planning.

Swallow me up, world. I no longer want to live in you.

14. You're REALLY hard on yourself.

A common trait of funny people is being highly self-analytical and self-critical. So when a joke doesn't go down very well, or is misunderstood, you end up on a total downward spiral of despair and hatred.

15. Being funny and wanting to be the centre of attention are two completely different things.

You want to vom in your mouth when people think the latter of you.

16. A lot of guys inherently hate funny women.

So they try and "take you down a peg or two" by taking the piss out of you in a totally non-hilarious way. Twats.

17. You always got detention for being insolent hilarious in class.

But at least you managed to stay on the right side of all the bullies at school because you could outsmart them with your wit. Swings and roundabouts.

18. People think you're being sarcastic or jokey even when you're trying to be serious.

"There's more to me than an endless stream of perfectly-crafted, immaculately-timed hilarity, guys."

19. Sometimes you'll willingly throw someone under the bus to make a good joke.

Regardless of the irreparable damage it might cause to your relationship. Oops. You've had to grovelingly apologise to a lot of friends and family.

20. Sometimes you take a joke TOO FAR and make a room go dead quiet like it does on Eastenders when there's a bombshell revelation at the pub.

You knowthe joke I'm talking about.

21. Sometimes you overdo it in social situations and make so many jokes that you end up exhausting your audience.

So they become numb to you and stop laughing and then you hate yourself for being a broken record of comedy.

22. You get preoccupied with not repeating the same witty anecdote twice.

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